GLC finally agrees to admit 499 LLB students
The public outcry and protest seem to have paid off as the General Legal Council has given the opportunity to the hitherto disgruntled 499 law students who were denied entry into the Ghana School of Law.
The good news came after a crunch meeting between leaders of the disgruntled 499 law students, the Attorney General and representatives of the General Legal Council.
This is a victory for the students but it has not come on a silver platter but with persistent efforts including protests and lawsuits that drew national attention and prompted Parliament to step in directing the AG to ensure their admission, a directive the AG quashed while questioning Parliament’s powers to prefer such directives before later directing the GLC to consider the students for admission.
Lawyer for the aggrieved students, Martin Kpebu, in briefing the press said the students are however yet to be informed when their admission will take effect.
Mr.Kpebu also indicated that the admission will be “subject to some modalities as to when these students will commence the course.”
“The subcommittee of the GLC that we met this evening will go back and report on the contents of these deliberations we have had,” he explained.
The students withdrew their lawsuit against the GLC and the Attorney General before this meeting.
By: Stella Annan | myactiveonline.com Twitter @activetvgh
